As such, word delimiters like whitespace and punctuation are not allowed. Note that, unlike most query languages, Voynichese queries are evaluated at the word level. While this syntax is only used internally, by the VP's query processor, it's important to be aware of how it operates in order to effectively query the manuscript. The Voynichese project (VP) defines a simple syntax for querying words in the Voynich Manuscript. The project was designed by Lukas Pilka in 2019-22. Thanks also go to many museums that made it possible to use their digitized collections, and to Richard Prajer, Radim Hašek, and Eva Škvárová who helped with the development of the application and the preparation of the database.
Implementation was carried out with the kind support of the UMPRUM, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic the Slovak National Gallery, and the BlueGhost digital agency. Data search and storage is performed using the ElasticSearch database and the operation of the application is provided by the Google App Engine service. The AI library for machine learning TensorFlow and the computer service Google Cloud including the tool Google Cloud Vision were used for the automatic detection of the depicted motifs. Other works are used only as a basis for statistics, presenting the frequency of occurrence of motifs. 71 410 of these works are available under an open license, so it is possible to view them online. The Digital Curator database now contains 196 116 works from the collections of 91 museums from Austria, Bavaria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. It can also help us better observe the migration of motifs and their takeover across centuries and distant regions. Exploring big cultural-historical data may bring new insights into abstract social phenomena such as cultural and economic influence, canon issues, the relationship between the center and the periphery, or the functioning of the art market. This distant viewing can be especially useful if our interest is aimed at exploring a genre, rather than a specific work, to understand the overall social conditions, rather than the life of a particular artist, or to interpret the overall political situation, rather than the views of the selected author. The Digital Curator offers a quantitative view of cultural history based on the frequency of symbols and iconographic themes in many artifacts, not on a detailed observation of individual items. Users of the application can build their combination of objects and reveal how often the subject has occurred across the centuries, view graphics, drawings, or paintings that represent it in different epochs, and compare data with other themes. The Digital Curator application allows you to explore the art collections of Central European museums and search for artworks based on specific motifs.
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